After nearly 3 years of ratings failure (to say the least), Al Jazeera America will finally be put out of its misery this April. Since its 2013 launch, not only has the left-wing cable news network failed to deliver anything
Syndicated columnist George Will told the inaugural “Disinvitation Dinner” of the William F. Buckley, Jr. Program at Yale that “93 members of the California legislature have never had sex.” Will was referring to the fact that 93 legislators in the California Senate and Assembly voted to pass last year’s SB 967, the so-called “yes means yes” or affirmative consent law, which requires students at state-funded colleges to obtain permission from each other for every stage of sexual contact.
In a report on a proposed law which would make it possible for the state of Colorado to bring murder charges after the death of an unborn baby, Think Progress’s Health Editor manages to misstate the facts of the crime which prompted the bill in the first place.
On April 14 gun control proponent Mark Kelly tweeted his support for the NRA’s efforts to teach gun safety to kids, causing the Huffington Post to come unglued.
“Cosmo is anti-God, anti-Christian, anti-marriage, and promotes a deviant lifestyle centered on sex,” she says. “It promotes promiscuity – with its risks of getting STDs, being raped or murdered, and its promise of emotional and psychological damage, including suicide,” the granddaughter of the founder of the Hearst Corporation says.
In part two of our three-part interview, and with our encouragement, The Washington Post’s Erik Wemple did most of the interviewing. Along with the recent uproars over Tucker Carlson, Brian Williams and Bill O’Reilly, we discussed the media’s handling of
The Edward Snowden story is a rare beast: you can’t predict how people will feel about it. And they usually feel very strongly one way or the other. Snowden is either a hero who can do no wrong, or a traitor
On Monday, German novelist, Nobel Prize winner, and former Waffen-SS Nazi Günter Grass died in Lubeck, Germany, at the age of 87. The press mourned his passing.
If you still wonder why our nation’s politics are so divided, look no further than Washington Post columnist Dana Milbank’s half-witted attempt to accuse Republicans—and Israelis—of hypocrisy in opposing the Iran deal. The same neocons and Likudniks who opposed any Iran deal, Milbank says, now want to stick with the interim deal, or argue for a “better deal” than the one President Barack Obama is proposing. Conclusion: they are liars, warmongers, and above all, Obama-haters.
Readers have low expectations of entertainment and news site Buzzfeed, cognisant of its flippant, free content, its pop culture focus and the journalistic limitations of a media company staffed by low-grade provocateurs, social media addicts, attention-seekers, social activists and second-rate
From UK tabloid newspaper the Daily Mirror, a touching, thought-provoking vignette of the kind of dilemmas faced by the liberated young woman in modern Britain: Dear Coleen, I have been really stupid. I went to a party recently and got
A writer for Buzzfeed resigned on Monday after a story she wrote criticizing a Buzzfeed advertiser was pulled and then later reposted by site Editor-in-Chief Ben Smith.
Every few months, xoJane, Salon, Thought Catalog or some other site posts an article about how offensive it is for men to hold doors open for women or pay on the first date or any number of normal behaviors. A
On Monday, ahead of Sen. Marco Rubio’s (R-FL) official 2016 presidential announcement, Univision anchor Jorge Ramos acknowledged the historic nature of two Latinos running for the White House. History: Two Latinos (Marco Rubio and Ted Cruz) run for the White
On Saturday, The Washington Post claimed we have a problem in this country wherein cops shoot unarmed people in the back and face no ramifications or very minor ones at the most.
We keep hearing about this awesome CNN comeback. The truth, though is that if you cherry-pick certain numbers and use them to compare yourself to The MSNBC Titanic, you can probably fool a few willing dupes into championing your comeback
After decades spent undermining Republican presidential candidates by raising questions about their health and age, Time Magazine just published a reassurance that Hillary Clinton (who is overweight and will be 69 when the next president is sworn in) is not
The Washington Post’s Erik Wemple and I have covered the same beat for a number of years now, and although we disagree more than agree, he is someone I have come to respect. My issues are generally with Wemple’s conclusions,
On April 13, The Daily Beast (TDB) reacted to the NRA’s Nashville convention by accusing Wayne LaPierre of “lying” in telling NRA members that Obama and the Democrats want to take guns away.
It was announced over the weekend that on June 7 John Dickerson will replace Bob Schieffer as the host of CBS News’ “Face the Nation.” CBS News president David Rhodes — whose brother Ben is a top Obama official most famous for editing the truth out of the infamous Benghazi talking points — said of Dickerson, “John is first and foremost a reporter — and that’s what he’ll be as anchor of ‘Face the Nation.'”
Departing editor of the Guardian, Alan Rusbridger, stated last month that as part of the publication’s new dedication to climate activism, they would begin aggressively targeting universities, trusts and businesses who commit the cardinal sin of investing in fossil fuels.
New York Magazine’s Jonathan Chait has pronounced the 2016 presidential election over. Hillary will win, Chait says, because of the “emerging Democrat majority” in the American electorate.
On Sunday, one mainstream media reporter accused Hillary Clinton’s campaign of feeding talking points to handpicked reporters that will later congeal into favorable conventional wisdom about her campaign. On CNN’s Reliable Sources, Hunter Walker, the Business Insider politics editor who broke
On Breitbart News Sunday on Sirius XM Patriot channel 125 from 7PM to 10PM EST, Breitbart News Executive Chairman and host Stephen K. Bannon will be discussing the most important news stories of the week. The show will include discussions of the huge NRA convention in Nashville, Tennessee, coverage of the 2016 presidential race, and the big 150th anniversary of the Confederate surrender at Appomattox Court House. Call into the show: 866-957-2874.
ABC’s George Stephanopoulos, MSNBC’s Joe Scarborough, and a half-dozen reporters from CNN were reportedly among the media elites that attended an off-the-record New York dinner with Hillary Clinton’s advisers on Friday evening ahead of her Sunday campaign announcement.
CBS News political director John Dickerson will replace the retiring Bob Schieffer as moderator of “Face the Nation.”
